#!/bin/bash PRE="ruby -I lib bin/mauvesend [::1]" F=60 S=10 n=$* _host () { hostname="imaginary-$i.example.com" down="n" while( true ) ; do if [ "$down" == "n" ] ; then $PRE -o $hostname -i heartbeat -r +$F -c now -s "heartbeat failed" --detail="

The heartbeat wasn't sent for this host

This indicates that the host might be down

" sleep $((F - $RANDOM*$S/32768 - $S)) else sleep $((RANDOM*$S/32768 + $F + $S)) fi if [ $RANDOM -gt 30000 ] ; then [ "$down" == "n" ] && echo "Host $hostname down" down="y" else [ "$down" == "y" ] && echo "Host $hostname up" down="n" fi done } echo -e "This command will go beserk. To kill run\n pkill -t `tty`\n\nGiving you 5 seconds to quit!" sleep 5 for i in `seq 1 100` ; do _host $i & sleep 0.2 done